Fantastics and Other Fancies

by Lafcadio Hearn, Charles Woodward Hutson (Editor)

"Aïda" • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
"His Heart Is Old" • (1882) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
A Dead Love • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
A Dream of Kites • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
A Kiss Fantastical • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
A Legend • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
A River Reverie • (1882) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
All in White • (1879) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Aphrodite and the King's Prisoner • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
At the Cemetery • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
El Vómito • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Hereditary Memories • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Hiouen-thsang • (1882) • short fiction by Lafcadio Hearn
L'Amour après la Mort • (1884) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Les Coulisses • (1879) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
MDCCCLIII • (1882) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Metempsychosis • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Spring Phantoms • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Bird and the Girl • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Black Cupid • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Devil's Carbuncle • (1879) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Fountain of Gold • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Ghostly Kiss • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Gipsy's Story • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Idyl of a French Snuff-Box • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Little Red Kitten • non-genre • (1879) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Name on the Stone • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Night of All Saints • (1879) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The One Pill-Box • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Post-Office • (1884) • short fiction by Lafcadio Hearn
The Stranger • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Tale of a Fan • (1881) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Undying One • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
The Vision of the Dead Creole • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
When I Was a Flower • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
Y Porque? • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn

Genres: Collections

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1914

About the author

Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan; people note his collections of stories and essays, including Kokoro (1896), under pen name Koizumi Yakumo.

Rosa Cassimati (Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη in Greek), a Greek woman, bore Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν in Greek or 小泉八雲 in Japanese), a son, to Charles Hearn, an army doctor from Ireland. After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. He arrived in Yokohama, but because of a dissatisfaction with the contract, he quickly quit the job. He afterward moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané prefectural middle school. In Matsué, he got acquainted with Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher and his lifelong friend, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai.
In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and taught at the fifth high school for three years. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the school of that time, spread judo to the world.

Hearn worked as a journalist in Kôbé and afterward in 1896 got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. He took this name from "Kojiki," a Japanese ancient myth, which roughly translates as "the place where the clouds are born". On that year, he moved to Tôkyô and began to teach at the Imperial University of Tôkyô. He got respect of students, many of whom made a remarkable literary career. In addition, he wrote much reports of Japan and published in America. So many people read his works as an introduction of Japan. He quit the Imperial University in 1903 and began to teach at Waseda University on the year next. Nevertheless, after only a half year, he died of angina pectoris.